Improvement in safety attachments for pockets



D. GOLDY.

SAFETY-ATTACHMENT FOR roux-ms.

No. 171.372. Patented Dec. 21,1875.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DANIEL GOLDY, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGN OR OF ONE- HALF HIS RIGHT TO JAMES M. GOLDY, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN SAFETY ATTACHMENTS FOR POCKETS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 1'7 L372, dated December 21, 1875; application filed November 22, 1875.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DANIEL GOLDY, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, have invented a Device for Securing Valuable Articles in the Pocket, of which the following is a specification The object of my invention is to provide a pocket-book or other valuable article usually carried in the pocket with a device by which it may be attached to the fabric of which the pocket is composed, thereby protecting the book against the depredation of thieves, or from loss.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a pocketbook with my retaining device, and Figs. 2 and 3 views of the device showing the retaining-hook in different positions.

To the flap A, or any other appropriate part of the book, I stitch, rivet, or otherwise secure a hollow ,casin g, B, the edge of which is partly circular and partly straight, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3, the straight portion presenting an opening for a purpose shown hereafter. To the interior of the circular portion of this casing is adapted a segmental hook, D, sharp at its outer end, as shown, and having at its inner end a stud or button, a, the shank of which passes through a slot in the edge of the casing, so that, by manipulating the button, the segmental hook can be moved to either of the positions shown in Figs. 2 and 3, the movement of the said hook being in the arc of a circle, as determined by the guiding-pieces.

e e in connection with the edge of the casing. After the segmental hook has been moved back within the casin g the pocket-book may be introduced into the pocket, when, by the manipulation of the stud a, the segmental hook D must be moved to the position shown in Fig. 3, the hook during this movement passing through the straight open portion of the casin g and through the fabric of the pocket, to which the hook must necessarily be so looked that it cannot be removed from the pocket by thieves without exerting a violence which must result in detection. The book, however, may be readily released by so manipulating the stud a that the segmental hook will be withdrawn from the fabric and into the "casing.

A pocket-book provided with the abovedescribed retaining device may be conveniently attached to the sleeve or other. appropriate part of a ladys dress, and it will be evident that the device may be applied to any valuable article which is usually carried in the pocket.

I claim as my invention-- The within-described retaining device, .consisting of the casing B, having one side open, in combination with the hook D, carrying a stud, a, and arranged to slide over the openin g in said casing, as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

DANIEL GOLDY. Witnesses:

HARRY HowsoN, J r., HARRY SMITH. 

